NickTahou has a second location in a safer less colorful part of town, but what is the fun in that.

NickTahou fans are spread throughout the United States.

One Tahou fan tells a story of how a friend suggested they stop at Nick’s for breakfast on Thanksgiving morning before driving three hours to his parent’s house for Thanksgiving dinner.

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NickTahouHots is a nice dining establishment situated in the beautiful downtown Rochester region.

In an earlier stint with The Bowie Baysox (Class AA affiliate of The Baltimore Orioles), much of the front office was from Rochester, and they yearned for the days when a fine meal at Nick's after a Red Wings game would strengthen their camraderie.

Carefully slice the hot dog or hamburger into small bite sizes, being carful not to cut yourself on the cerrated plastic.

The meatstuff of your choice is plated with piles of baked beans and home-fried potatoes, a scoop of cool macaroni salad, a dollop of spicy chili sauce, a squirt of two of mustard, and a sprinkle of chopped raw onions.

Especially noteworthy is the sauce, a fine-grained, Greek-accented brew that is also available on such lesser variants of frankfurter cookery as NickTahou's peppery pork hots and the basic garlic-packed Texas hots, as well as on grilled hamburgers.

As befits its menu, NickTahou is an unruly dog house, with chairs and tables scattered around and plenty of noise as customers call out for red hots and white hots with the works.

For the uninitiated out there, a garbage plate, traditionally, is 2 meats (usually burgers or hot dogs with no buns) served over a bed of home fries and macaroni salad covered with mustard, onions and a spicy meat sauce, which in these places is usually referred to hot sauce.

This is in honor of NickTahou himself, a Rochester legend, who passed almost a decade ago.

They've threatened to sue people for using the name "garbage plate." They seem to want to think that they're in a league of their own, and that theirs is the only true garbage plate.

Made famous locally, nationally and internationally by NickTahouHots, the dish either has wooed or revolted residents and visitors alike.

NickTahou's has been serving its famed Garbage Plate and other dishes for years.

Tahou, an Irondequoit native who lives in Wayne County, says the hours were reduced because it just wasn't “economically wise” to keep the restaurant open 24 hours a day, especially because shifts in Rochester's economy resulted in the dismissals of thousands of manufacturing employees and an exodus of city jobs to the suburbs.

The Georgia Hots is a type of sandwich containing a spicy sausage that is put on a bun.

Red Hots are a registered trademark of Ferrara Pan Candy Company and is yet another For further information on the process of how Red Hots are made,

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Nick’s was the first place in Rochester to come up with the “garbage plate” back in the late ‘30s.

Garbage plates are not just “crowd-pleasers with the bums on Monroe Avenue and the boozed-up youth of suburbia.” My parents grew up in the nearby area, and back in the day Nick’s was their late night hangout.

And trash plates, landfill plates etc. only came into being because Nick’s has a copyright on “garbage plates.” The sign out front reads: “NickTahou’sHots, Home of the Garbage Plate.” Nick passed away about five years ago, but he is surely rolling in his grave after getting wind of this article.

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The owner of the legendary NickTahou'sHots restaurant in Rochester and his family were involved in a serious car accident Sunday evening in Wayne County.

State Police in Williamson tell News 8 that Alex Tahou and his wife Jeanette were airlifted to Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse with head trauma and internal injuries, after their van was hit at the intersection of Dutch Street Road and Lummisville Road in the Town of Huron.